At 10:05 AM 7/11/01, Jim Dixon wrote:
>I made some inquiries.
>This was one that I got back. It has an interesting picture or two
>describing
>multiple tokens.
It's a terminology thing. The description below is just a generic
description of early token release. There can be multiple frames (busy
tokens). There's only one free token.
Most people don't describe a frame as a busy token.
When I said there could be multiple tokens, I was just confused. Please let
it go at that. ;-)
Priscilla
>Jim
>
> >I'm defintitely not the MPLS guru!
> >But I can clarify (ur-uh, muddy the water) on the Token Ring issue being
> >discussed below: There is a multiple-token operational mode in which the
> >transmitting station can generate a new free token and place it on the
ring
> >immediately following the last bit of transmitting data. It permits
several
> >busy tokens and one free token on the ring at the same time. Check out
>this
> >cool little diagram (pictures are worth 1,000 words):
>
>http://www.lkn.ei.tum.de/mmprog/mac/protocols/token-ring/ring1-slow.htm
>
>try also
>
>http://www.lkn.ei.tum.de/mmprog/mac/index.html
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